the picture is almost sepia
team colours neutered
by dressingroom lights
his face grizzled
sagging like old skin
weary beyond years
sweat reeks sepia
like rusted fenders
in a wet junk yard
bandage pride
under the inevitability
of a Lamborghini
the gods decree
one team wins
all others lose
About riverwriter
Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else?
wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/
Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
